Biscuit-baking appliance.



No. 896,964 PATENTED AUG. 25, 1908.

' W. H. WILLIAMS.

BISCUIT BAKING APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1905.

VV 11L: EEEE pans and cups are without novelty herein 4 WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BISGUIT-BAENG APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 25,; 19 08.

Application filed June 30, 1905. Serial No- 267,788.

been a very difiicult matter to form a cuplike mass that is neither too loose in' texture nor too compact and that is not crushed down at any point but is uniformly light and open throughout. Obviously a slight pressure upon soft uncooked filafnents destroys this practically indispensable characteristm; So when the material has been cooked it is very fragile and it has been very difiicult to remove it from the cup in which it is baked without injuring its filaments. To avoid these difiiculties and provide for charging and discharging the cups perfectly, rapidly and certainl are among the more specific obj ects of the invention. The desired ends are attained by providing novel cups to be used in a set in a novel pan.

In the accompanying drawin s, Figure 1 is 'a perspective view illustrating t e manner of using the novel cups and pans, preparatory to putting the same in the oven;;' Fig. '2 is a plan view of one of the baking cups. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of a baking pan filled with such cups. Fig. 4 illustrates the manner of using the novel pan when the'cups are all to be removed bodil therefrom Fig. 5 is a vertical section 0 one of the baking cups. Fig. 6 shows the method of removing the baked product from a set of the cups by 1 taking advantage of their peculiarconstruction. Fig; 7 is a vertical section of the removable bottom of one of the baking cups.

The tables and special devices for using the claimed and are shown only to make clear the nature and objects of the invention.

In these fi ures, i represents the c lindrical body 0 a metal'bakin cup an 2 a bottom for the cup, made to-sIide easily into and out of the same and having the form of an inverted cup provided with central perforations 16 and also perforations 15 in its upwardly curved flange 3, of approximately semicircular cross-sectien. The highest art of the bottom is materially below the p ane of the upper edge of the body, so that when the cup is filled the material takes a cup-like form and is not, a mass having a central opening. When these cups [are filled they are placed in pans 4 adapted to hold somewhat closely a definite number. Each pan la g s one side wall, so that a set of cups may sli e together into and out of the pan, and is provided with a bail 6 pivoted to the sides of the pan at some distance from its open side in position to swing down into the plane of the missing side and obstruct the movement of the cups, and to swing upward when desired, above the plane of the cups which may slide in beneath it in filling the pan, and to serve also as a handle when the cups are to slide out of the pan, theseuses being illustrated in Figs. -1 and 4. When a set of cups is secured in the pan, each occupies a fixed position, and centrally beneath each is an aperture 8, and thereby the an may be pressed down upon a set of pins (Fig. 6),

which thus raise the loose bottoms simultaneously lifting the biscuits out of the bodies of the cups and holding. them in position for conveniently removin the baked product. The perforations in t e loose bottoms not only allow circulation of air but permit drawing the filaments into the cup by at mospheric suction, which is necessary if they are to be evenly and compactly distributed without crushing.

What I claim is:

1 A baking cup having an upwardly removable bottom projecting upward, centrally, to form an inverted cup of materially less height than the lateral walls, and royided with aseries of central perforations and a series of perforations near its margin. 2. The combination with a baking pan rovided with a series of perforations in its bottom, of a set of baking cups having upwardly removable bottoms registering with said perforations, respectively.

. WIhLIAlii ERASTUS WILLIAMS.

Witnesses W. A. SHEAHAN, 'W. DUNHAM. 

